With 10 goals, Vietnam U23 boasts the second-best attack in the Asian U23 Championship.

Vietnam U23 is one of the teams with the best goal-scoring record at the 2026 AFC U23 Asian Championship.

The Vietnam U23 team has excellent goal-scoring ability at this year's AFC U23 Asian Championship - Photo: AFC

At the end of this year's tournament, the Vietnam U23 team scored a total of 10 goals. In their opening match, coach Kim Sang Sik's team defeated Jordan 2-0. They then overcame Kyrgyzstan 2-1 and Saudi Arabia 1-0.

In the quarter-finals, Vietnam U23 defeated UAE 3-2 after a thrilling 120 minutes. In the semi-finals, they lost 0-3 to China and had to play in the third-place match. There, coach Kim Sang Sik's team drew 2-2 with South Korea before winning on penalties.

Among those who scored for the Vietnam U23 team, Dinh Bac contributed 4 goals and even won the top scorer title.

Players Khuất Văn Khang, Quốc Việt, Minh Phúc, Hiểu Minh, and Lê Phát each scored one goal. The remaining goal for Vietnam U23 came from an own goal by Khristiyan Brauzman of Kyrgyzstan U23.

With 10 goals, Vietnam U23 has the second-best attack in the 2026 AFC U23 Championship. This number is only behind Japan U23, the team with the best attack with 16 goals.

Coach Kim Sang Sik's team's performance this time was better than that of Asian football giants like South Korea (8 goals), Australia, Jordan, and UAE (5 goals). Even the runner-up, China U23, only managed 4 goals, 6 fewer than Vietnam U23.

The only other Southeast Asian team participating in this year's tournament is Thailand U23, who finished the competition with only two goals scored.

Ten goals is also the best number of goals the Vietnam U23 team has ever achieved in the history of participating in the AFC U23 Asian Championship. In the previous six tournaments, the best performance was in 2018, with eight goals. That year, under the guidance of coach Park Hang Seo, the Vietnam U23 team reached the final.

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